A few weeks ago I purchased a Dlink DIR-655 router to upgrade my home network to wireless-N. Around the same time I began to configure a few machines in my house to use SoftSqueeze and had upgraded SqueezeCenter to version 7. I also began using WPA2 for security.
Performance was terrible. Music would cut out, the web interface was terribly sluggish and I was nearing my wits end trying to make it run right. However there was a catch - for some reason I had no problems streaming through my SSH tunnel across the internet. SoftSqueeze ran great at work and the web interface was snappy, it was just unusable at home over the wireless LAN. I had changed a good number of variables so troubleshooting was no fun. I tried changing SqueezeCenter to the text only interface, turning off security, etc. After fiddling with multiple router settings I have finally narrowed it down to the WISH & QoS features in the router. There are features that are designed to prioritize wireless & internet traffic and they are turned on by default. As soon as I disabled these features performance skyrocketed! There are no more delays and I can stream to 3 separate SoftSqueeze clients as well as over my SSH tunnel with no delay! After reading about the WISH feature some more I think I can enable it again with some SqueezeCenter specific ports and make it work, but for now I am leaving it off. I don't really think QoS is responsible but I am leaving it off anyway as I don't have any need for it. I just wanted to share this as I assume there are plenty of folks with D-Link routers with these features and it was no fun troubleshooting. I don't know if my situation is unique based on my system architecture/encryption/etc. but hopefully it can help someone out there suffering. ;) -- dmross ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dmross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9831 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46885 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
